Hamish Lawson wrote:
I have a web application (not written in PHP) that can return data in
various formats, including JSON and PHP's serialization format. At the
moment my URL scheme looks like this:
staff/engineering?format=json
but I'd like to switch to using a file extension to denote the format:
staff/engineering.json
But what file extension should I use for PHP's serialization format?
Obviously it can't be .php - aside from being inaccurate (it's not PHP
code), using this extension would probably trigger the web server into
trying to run a (nonexistent) PHP script.
Given that file extensions are purely for association purposes and no
application I am aware of knows what to do with PHP serialised data,
personally I would use .dat. Or, if I wanted it to be more descriptive,
something like .phpdata. But to be perfectly frank it doesn't matter.
Small suggestion though... rather than falling back to the evils of
mod_rewrite, enable multiviews and you can have URLs such as...
staff/engineering/data.json
Or whatever filename you want.
-Stut
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